I have an Acer laptop which is partitioned; I'm not sure if this is something to do with the factory install or if another technician did this to my mate’s laptop.
I rebuilt the C: partition from factory install assuming this would clear both out and merge them to one. This is not the case. C: is now built and working fine and all sweet.
Ideally I need to delete the other partition all together without any effect on the C: I do not want to do a factory install as this may get rid of the C: again as it gave me no option.
If I cannot do that, need to safely delete all the files on this other drive and then reduce the size of this and move the storage over to the C: drive.
What is the best way to do this? Get rid of the drive or reduce the size of this. Please provide as detailed instructions as possible.
2007-02-21 02:35:17 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
So it may be that Acer put this other partition in not the IT person my mate got before? And the best idea would be to just reduce it?
The OEM OS disk, can this be set up so that it doesn't wipe the whole exisiting disk?
2007-02-21 03:01:42 · update #1
I believe partition magic can do all of the things you have suggested. You may need to resize, move files, resize, move files, resize, move files, delete partition, extend partition if you have a lot of data on the drive. Moving files is something you do yourself from within windows.
As on the very rare occasion something goes wrong during these critical operations (such as power going down), you could use norton ghost to do a network backup of the entire drive before using partition magic.
2007-02-21 02:39:21 · answer #1 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You should be able to make the other partition a secondary microsoft partition and give it a drive letter. This will give you the full capacity of the drive.
Otherwise got in and delete the partition. Then re size the main partition to get the full use of the disk.
2007-02-21 03:18:18 · answer #2 · answered by Ernie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do not delete the other partition. It is where the data is stored when you put your laptop into hibernation and the partition is installed by the manufacturer.
2007-02-21 02:41:15 · answer #3 · answered by Del Piero 10 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will need the OEM OS disk to access the partition to delete.
2007-02-21 02:38:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This sofware called " Partition Magic " :)
2007-02-21 02:40:05 · answer #5 · answered by BitbyBit 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you just get the partition magic software and you'll have all the options
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2007-02-21 02:38:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋